Flotilla minutes for Oct. 14, 2017

  1. Visitors: Voltaire Fronda, Charley Wilmoth, Ross and Melanie Weller, Pat Jacobson
  2. Announcements
  3. ODU sleeves down began Oct. 1
  4. Leadership meeting Oct. 16, 6 p.m. at Noodles
  5. ABS Sunday, Oct. 29, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in KIBSD conference room, room F140
  6. Dues are due no later than Oct. 31
  7. $55/person, $100/couple
  8. Cash or check to U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
  9. Operation Life Ring has been activated for Auxiliarists affected by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. To donate, visit
  10. Fund set up by Auxiliary, all funds go directly to Auxiliarists and family members affected
  11. Reports of major accomplishments and future plans
  12. Division Board Meeting, looked at “health” of our flotilla based on following factors
  13. Our flotilla has not turned in hours, looks bad compared with other flotillas
  14. Do not have a member distributing literature to Marine Dealer (called Marine Dealer Visits)
  15. In order to so, must be a qualified vessel examiner
  16. Joe and Darren expressed interest in doing so
  17. Public Affairs missions
  18. Member training
  19. Direct Coast Guard support
  20. Active members turning in hours
  21. Do not have hours turned in, not reflecting what we’re doing
  22. Please turn in your hours by the end of the year
  23. Currently, less than 1 hour per flotilla member
  24. Flotilla newsletter is out
  25. Looking for staff officers
  26. Must have mandated training done in order to be considered
  27. Hoping to have regular newsletters out
  28. Membership is growing
  29. Change of watch, tentatively scheduled for second weekend in January
  30. Don’t know exact format yet, more details to come
  31. Turning in hours
  32. Auxiliary is funded based on volunteer hours - very important to turn them in!!!
  33. Easy to do via 7029 web form
  34. Enter info by day or all at once
  35. No printing, no saving pdfs
  36. Automatically totals your hours
  37. Save often – form will time-out on you
  38. Automatically saves a copy in the dashboard
  39. To access: click on Aux Member tab, click on 7029 web form
  40. Log in using member number and password
  41. Go to left hand side, click on 7029 form access
  42. Click on version 1.1
  43. To do new form, click “new” at the bottom
  44. Type in date of activity (date, month, year)
  45. Enter description
  46. Enter hours under appropriate category
  47. To enter mission hours
  48. Access pdf forms
  49. Choose 7030 form, fill in fields
  50. Save to your computer, email form to Kalynn Irwin
  51. To enter vessel exams or Marine Dealer Visits
  52. Access pdf forms
  53. Choose 7038 forms, fill in fields
  54. Save to your computer, email to Kalynn Irwin
  55. Finance Officer’s report
  56. $2500 checking, $780 savings
  57. Committee reports
  58. Operations
  59. Wes requalified as crew member
  60. Vessel exams
  61. Winding down, have a couple more to do
  62. Member training
  63. A couple new members to train
  64. Sam wants to get a BS&S course going
  65. Public Affairs
  66. Facebook page active, new newsletter going out
  67. Human Resources and Diversity are vacant officer positions
  68. Coastie
  69. Gabriel will coordinate Coastie visits
  1. Awards and presentations
  2. Members not present